Lengede
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Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ' N , 10 ° 18' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Torment | |
| Height : | 90 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 34.22 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 13,356 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 390 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 38268 | |
| Primaries : | 05174, 05344 | |
| License plate : | PE | |
| Community key : | 03 1 57 005 | |
| LOCODE : | DE LXG | |
| Community structure: | 5 localities | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Vallstedter Weg 1 38268 Lengede |
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| Mayoress : | Maren Wegener ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Lengede in the district of Peine | ||
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Lengede is a municipality in the southeast of the Peine district in Lower Saxony . The community consists of the core town of Lengede and the localities of Barbecke, Broistedt, Klein Lafferde and Woltwiesche, which were incorporated in 1972. A total of 13,356 people live in the municipality (as of December 31, 2019).
The place became known worldwide through the Lengede mine disaster in 1963 .
geography
Geographical location
The place is located 18 kilometers southwest of Braunschweig and almost 44 kilometers southeast of Hanover . It is about 18 kilometers to the district town of Peine in the north. The river Fuhse flows through Lengede.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring municipalities of Lengede are:
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| Salzgitter |
Community structure
The municipality of Lengede consists of the following districts:
- Barbel
- Broistedt
- Small loaf soil
- Lengede
- Woltwiesche
history
In the town of Broistedt, which belongs to Lengede, the Braunschweiger patrician family Broistedt has demonstrably from 1330 a fiefdom . It was dissolved in 1838 when the feudal burdens were lifted. Arnolt Broistedt, who was born around 1280, is known as the oldest representative of the family.
Lengede miracle
The place gained worldwide fame in the autumn of 1963 through the Lengede mine disaster . On October 24th, 129 miners were surprised in the Mathilde shaft when an above-ground mining clarification pond of 500,000 cubic meters of water broke. 86 miners rescued themselves on the same day. A rescue did not seem possible for the remaining 43. After eight days, three more miners were rescued. The miracle of Lengede describes the finding of still living buddies at a depth of 60 meters on November 3rd. The eleven men held out underground for four more days before they could be rescued with a Dahlbusch bomb . There was no salvation for 29 buddies.
The event was filmed twice with the title “The Miracle of Lengede”, in 1969 ( film from 1969 ) directed by Rudolf Jugert and in 2003 ( film from 2003 ) directed by Kaspar Heidelbach . In addition, in 2003 the WDR produced the documentary "The Lengede Drama, Protocol of a Catastrophe" , directed by Frank Bürgin .
Incorporations
On July 1, 1972, as part of the regional reform in Lower Saxony, the until then independent municipalities Barbecke, Broistedt, Klein Lafferde, Lengede and Woltwiesche were combined to form the newly created unified municipality Lengede. The incorporated communities of Barbecke, Broistedt and Woltwiesche did not previously belong to the Peine district, but to the Wolfenbüttel district .
Population development
With the exception of the years 1973 to 1978, the number of inhabitants has risen continuously since 1968. This development was more even and with about 42% stronger than in the entire district of Peine with about 12%.
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religion
The Evangelical Lutheran churches in Lengede and Klein Lafferde belong to the south-east region of the Peine parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover , while the churches in Barbecke, Broistedt and Woltwiesche belong to the Salzgitter-Lebenstedt provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Braunschweig .
The Roman Catholic St. Mary's Church is located in Lengede . The church named after Maria (mother of Jesus) was built in 1961/62 on the corner plot in Fuhsetal / Broistedter Straße. Since 2008 the church belongs to the parish of St. Bernward in Groß Ilsede . In Woltwiesche the last to parish was located from 1941 to 1994 St. Marien belonging Chapel of Christ the King , they had been set up in the former dairy Woltwiesche-Barbecke.
The church of the New Apostolic congregation Lengede-Broistedt is located in Broistedt, Danzigstrasse 1. It belongs to the church district of Braunschweig.
politics
Municipal council
The council of the municipality Lengede consists of 30 women and Council councilors. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 12,001 and 15,000. The 30 council members are elected for five years each by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.
The full-time mayor Maren Wegener (SPD) is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality.
The last local elections resulted in the following distribution of seats:
| SPD | CDU | GREEN | FDP | AfD | total | was standing | |
| 2016 | 17th | 7th | 2 | 1 | 3 | 30 seats | Local election on September 11, 2016 |
| 2011 | 19th | 8th | 2 | 1 | - | 30 seats | Local election on September 11, 2011 |
| 2006 | 21st | 8th | - | 1 | - | 30 seats | Local election on September 10, 2006 |
mayor
Maren Wegener ( SPD ) has been Mayor of Lengede since September 19, 2016. In the mayoral election on September 11, 2016, Maren Wegener (SPD) prevailed with 59.2 percent of the vote against the non-party Andreas Sadlo with 40.9 percent. Wegener replaced the previous mayor, Hans-Hermann Baas (SPD), who had been mayor since 1986 and had not stood as a candidate.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the municipality of Lengede shows a golden arched window opening in red quarry stone masonry, covered with golden corrugated beams, with a hanging black miner's lamp with silver-shined light.
flag
The flag is red and gold; it consists of red-gold-red horizontal bars in a ratio of 1: 2: 1. The coat of arms of the municipality of Lengede is shown on the central golden part.
Partner communities
- Alvesta in Sweden since 2006
- Dąbrowa in Poland , since 2006
- Ribemont in France since 1990
- Throwing in Austria since 1979
Culture and sights
Parks
The former open-cast mining areas, which have been converted into a nature reserve, as well as the Seilbahnberg local recreation park offer good opportunities to observe rare water birds.
Sports
Numerous leisure activities are offered in Lengede: sports and tennis courts, sports halls, multi-purpose buildings and an outdoor pool. A new mountain bike route will also be created in 2009 by young people from the community.
societies
- " Schweinkasse " = Pig Insurance Association a. G. Lengede (mutual)
- Fishing club
- Miners' Association
- German Amateur Radio Club e. V., local association Lengede
- Rabbit Breeding Association
- Children's lobby in Lengede e. V.
- Men's choir
- Music group red and white
- Allotment gardening association
- Sports club Lengede e. V.
- Pigeon breeding association "Heimatliebe"
- Turnerbund e. V.
- Volksfestgemeinschaft Lengede e. V.
traffic
Lengede can be reached via the federal highway 39 Braunschweig – Salzgitter, exit Salzgitter-Lebenstedt Nord. The Lengede-Broistedt and Woltwiesche stops are on the Hildesheim – Groß Gleidingen railway line and are served hourly by the RE 50 line between Hildesheim, Braunschweig and Wolfsburg.
The Peine – Broistedt and Broistedt – Calbrech lines run by the Peine-Salzgitter transport company (VPS), which are only used for freight transport , also run through the municipality .
Sons and daughters of the church
- Eduard Georg Schröter (1811–1888), theologian
- Wilhelm Schmidt (* 1944 in Barbecke), SPD politician
- Bernd Schünemann (* 1944 in Broistedt), legal scholar
literature
- Lengede an der Fuhse, 1151–2001, chronicle . Published by the working group 850 Years of Lengede, Lengede 2001. (without ISBN)
- Wolfgang Altrock: Chronicle of the village Woltwiesche 1149–1999 . Published by the Woltwiesche local council, Woltwiesche 1999. (without ISBN)
- Broistedt - The story of a village, 1151–2001, chronicle . Edited by the working group 850 Years Broistedt, 2001. (without ISBN)
- Rüdiger Wala in "KirchenZeitung" No. 43/2012, p. 13: House of God with purpose (history of the Catholic Church of St. Mary). Hildesheim, October 28, 2012.
- Werner Cleve: Lengede. Five villages in historical photographs. Sutton, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-508-6 (Cleve is a local home nurse).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 217 .
- ↑ a b Local election 2011 on the website of the municipality of Lengede ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Local election 2006 on the Lengede community website ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 26, 2014.
- ↑ Local elections 2016 on the Lengede community website ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Main statutes of the Lengede municipality ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 26, 2014.
- ↑ Entry on the partner communities on the Lengede community website.Accessed on May 10, 2019, 8:09 pm
